MAY 2009 - Art – The Brooklyn Rail

In Conversation

Alex Katz with Phong Bui

Alex Katz's exhibit Fifteen Minutes will be on view at Pace Wildenstein through June 13, 2009.

Picasso Selon Freud

By Rosalind Krauss

I begin with a drawing of 1906, from Picasso’s Rose Period, the era of circuses and Saltimbanques.

Pablo Picasso, “Rider Seen from Behind” (1906). Paris. Courtesy of ARS.

RAILING OPINION: How to Look at Postmodern Painting and Its Criticism

By Irving Sandler

Entering the avant-garde art world in the 1950s, I was reared on modernist painting and its attitudes.

Martin Kippenberger, (Untitled) from the series Fred the Frog (1990). Oil on canvas, 94 1/2 x 78 3/4 in. Collection of Audrey M. Irmas, Los Angeles, © Estate Martin Kippenberger, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.

In Conversation

James Little with Benjamin La Rocco

James Little's exhibit De-Classified: New Paintings will be on view at June Kelly Gallery through June 9, 2009.

Portrait of the artist. Pencil on paper by Phong Bui.

In Conversation

Robert Lawlor with Christopher Bamford and Dorothea Rockburne

Robert Lawlor, whose book Sacred Geometry has had a great influence in reawakening us to the importance of geometrical principles, symmetries, and proportions—not only for art and architecture but also for science and consciousness studies, speaks with Dorothea Rockburne, Christopher Bamford, and Robert Lawlor.

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